Matemates is a collaborative artistic project between Florencia Frete and Alexandru G. Ichim. We create and re-create together and separately and along other artistic groups. We explore different mediums: creative writing, music, audiovisuals, performance, research and community projects. We’ve edited books with ALGO in Argentina but Latcho Drom is our first self-published book. We hope this book will be the first of series of similar poems and stories that explore the multicultural frontiers that inhabit us.

We celebrate the initiative of such a fair in London as it brings together the wealth of the Hispanic world and the bilingualism that represents many of the Hispanic communities in London. We believe it is an important platform to strengthen exchanges between the different creators and readers gathered around that diversity. And we value the commitment to gather productions of all kinds, whether they are more established publishers as well as independent producers like us.

We hope it will be a space that draws on the diversity of literary expressions and brings together initiatives open to exchange. Likewise, we hope that the platform can contribute to the networks between productions of the most peripheral and informal type along with those of large scale.